The Summoners of Rain…

Here is a picture I took of one of the worshipers on the edge of the lava lake, dancing barefoot on rough lava rock, super-heated by the sun. She honors Pele, the Volcano goddess. Photo Credit: Seana Fenner

Odinists are pantheists and we believe in spirit, or as the Hawaiians would say, “mana“, in Nature.. This devotee worships Pele, the fiery Earth Goddess in her dance. The Hawaiian religion is part of a Stone Age culture which has drawn upon remembrance of Asian cultures, ultimately derived from our most ancient traditions, so there is a relation to our religion.

Offerings near Hale’mau-mau, with the heated air, the “Breath of Pele“, rising from the hot stone.

A Roman writer tells us that in former days, noble matrons used to go with bare feet, streaming hair, and pure minds, up the long Capitoline slope, praying to Jupiter for rain, and straightway, it rained bucketsful, then or never, and everybody returned dripping like drowned rats, but nowadays we are no longer religious, so the fields lie baking.

The molten cauldron of Pele’s lava lake set against the Milky Way.

Is there something to the idea that the combined wishes and spiritual energy of a people who believe in themselves can affect reality? Personally, I believe so.